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Windows 7: Hard disk not recognized

i accidentally wiped my hard drive and recovery partion on an HP Pavillion G6 laptop running a 500 Gig seagate hard drive and now it will not recognize the drive.i can not format it or do anything please help.

Hard disk not recognized

hard drive NOT recognized in computer but IS recognized in disk mgmnt.I just rebuilt an old system using Windows 7 Home Premium after using WinXP pro for many years. The primary hard drive is WDC 150 Mg and Win7 is installed and updated to current with SP1. I dropped a second WDC hard drive in, formatted and was going to use it for a 2nd backup unit. Both of these...

Hardware & Devices

External Hard disk Iomega 2 Tb recognized by pc but can't be formattedHi everyone
I'm new here and even though i have been reading a lot of usueful threads , i couldn't solve my problem at all.
Well i have an external HDD Iomega 2Tb , that after a while stopped to work entirely.
At first i would get "corrupted data " messages on windows 7, but now i can't access...

Hardware & Devices

Confused about installing Windows on my hard disk,hard disk problemHi guys,
I will try to explain this as simple as i can.So let's start
I have laptop ASUS N75SF and it is a year old,so i have decided to format.I have two separate hard disks that are the same brand,SeaGate 9500423 AS, each 500 gb capacity. Before i decided to format , one of my hard...

Installation & Setup

New Hard disk recognized by Windows7 but not by BIOS, install failedI have a compaq CQ60 104TU laptop, my previous harddrive crashed and i has an external 500GB hardrive lying around. So, I opened it up and took the Harddrive out and inserted into my laptop.
When I am trying to load windows into it I get the error
Windows cannot be installed to this disk....

Hardware & Devices

hard disk not recognized on laptopHi guys,
I will try to explain this.First i have Asus laptop N75sf and it comes with two hard disks Seagate ST 9500423AS each 500 gb.The one i use for storing documents movies etc. it is not recognized.But i can use the laptop because the other one is good and there is my windows installed.When i...

Hardware & Devices

Disk not recognized in Disk ManagementSo I was trying to put a Win 7 installation onto a partition of an external hard drive using WinToFlash (WTF), but after WTF unable to lock down the specific partition I backed out of it by forcing log out, but now I can only see one of the many partitions on the hard drive. How do I find the other...